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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (12113)	5/9/2011 2:04:48 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) of 24232

re..High End homes... Floodwaters threaten wealthy Memphis enclave THE SWELLING MISSISSIPPI IS BREAKING 80-YEAR HIGH-WATER RECORDS By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. ---- Mud Island, which juts into the mighty Mississippi, pays homage to the Big Muddy with an elaborate scale model of the river, a museum about its history, and a paddlewheel steamboat that looks like something straight out of "Huckleberry Finn." But now Mud Island is getting too much of the Mississippi. Rising waters practically lapped at the back porches of some of the island's expensive houses Thursday, and homeowners weighed whether to stay or go. Up and down Ol' Man River, from Illinois to Louisiana, thousands faced the same decision as high water kept on rolling down the Mississippi and its tributaries, threatening to swamp communities over the next week or two. The flooding is already breaking high-water records that have stood since the 1930s. "I'm going to sleep thinking, 'I hope they don't evacuate the island and we wake up and we're the only ones here,'" said Emily Tabor, a first-year student at the University of Tennessee's College of Pharmacy in Memphis who lives on Mud Island.

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